I wrote this blog post for New Year’s 2009 (you know, during the economic recession). As I pondered leaving behind 2020 (thank, God!) and looking through the dark hours of the pandemic, I realized my 2009 meanderings are just as …
new year's resolutions
Resolved: No Resolutions!
Here we are in the middle of the holidays and with Christmas over, we’re rushing headlong into NEW YEAR’S which for many of us means… resolutions. I’ve always loved the feeling of starting a fresh year and optimistically making
What’s Your 2017 Focus?
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
Everybody else is doing their New Year’s posts, so I might as well toss one out too! Many of us are spending time over the holidays evaluating our lives and our work, and coming up with goals, …
How to Combat the Negative Effects of a Sedentary, Overeating Lifestyle
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
By this time in a new year, most of us have lost the battle to maintain our resolutions to eat better and exercise more. Don’t ask me how I know this to be the case.
Several …
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Keep Your Writing Resolutions: 5 Tips
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
My husband told me on New Year’s Day that he read somewhere (how’s that for citing a source?) that 40% of those who make New Year’s resolutions …
I Resolve…
Bogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
As I considered my New Year’s resolutions, I realized they looked very different if I thought of them not as “resolutions” but rather in terms of “I …
Newfangled New Year
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I like the idea that, nestled in 2009’s calendar pages, we find newfangledness–the surprise of what’s to come; the anticipation of the unsought good news; the opportunities …